: a mode of thinking, feeling, or acting common to a given group of people
especially
: a traditional social custom
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Opened in 2016, the studio numbers 130 students of all ages, mostly children of Indian descent eager to learn both the folkways of their forebears and the rituals deeply connected to their ancestral roots.
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Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 26 June 2023
By March 1994, when AOL connected its one million subscribers to Usenet, soft moderation tactics had begun to dissolve; the newbies had no idea that there were particular social mores, folkways, and protocols that had been designed by their predecessors.
—Hannah Zeavin, Harper's Magazine, 15 June 2022
This might be the deepest, widest folkway of them all.
—Robin Sloan, The Atlantic, 14 May 2020
Brown, who is a vegan, seemed to find the peculiar human folkways involving meat enervating.
—Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 1 Apr. 2020
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Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 26 June 2023
By March 1994, when AOL connected its one million subscribers to Usenet, soft moderation tactics had begun to dissolve; the newbies had no idea that there were particular social mores, folkways, and protocols that had been designed by their predecessors.
—Hannah Zeavin, Harper's Magazine, 15 June 2022
This might be the deepest, widest folkway of them all.
—Robin Sloan, The Atlantic, 14 May 2020
Brown, who is a vegan, seemed to find the peculiar human folkways involving meat enervating.
—Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 1 Apr. 2020
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“Folkway.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/folkway. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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